California town, Huntington Beach, proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Travellers crossing Channel at Dover face long queues during Christmas getaway (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Russia warns US and Europe over reports Ukraine may get its seized assets (www.theguardian.com)
Kremlin threatens ‘serious consequences’ if there is an unprecedented seizure of Russian assets held abroad...
California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations (www.theguardian.com)
Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence...
More than 1,100 officers under investigation for sexual or domestic abuse in England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
As one in seven accused of offences keep working, Lib Dems call on home secretary James Cleverly for ‘radical overhaul’ of vetting
Police fatally shoot Black woman who called 911 for domestic violence (www.theguardian.com)
A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, police officials and lawyers for the victim’s family said on Thursday. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances three years ago....
Wind turbines generate more than half of UK’s electricity due to Storm Pia (www.theguardian.com)
‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humans (www.theguardian.com)
‘I’m very proud of him’: Sebastien Lai on Hong Kong, accountability and his father Jimmy’s trial (www.theguardian.com)
"There is that idea that we always thought China would liberalise economically, get freer and freer,” says Lai. “But I think Dad realised very early on, and he said in an interview, that wishful thinking doesn’t work. You’ve got to put the work in. And that’s what he did.”...
British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, claims Human Rights Watch. (www.theguardian.com)
Anti-democracy playbook has new threats in store for the US in 2024 (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims::Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today | Samantha Hill (www.theguardian.com)
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Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ (www.theguardian.com)
Landmark case over popular snowball candle holder design may open door to retrospective claims across bloc
Dukes of Hazzard actor John Schneider called for public hanging of Joe Biden (www.theguardian.com)
French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents (www.theguardian.com)
The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family: A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors (www.theguardian.com)
"We had a 14-year-old girl just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” says James Elder, Unicef’s chief spokesperson, who spent weeks in Gaza under bombardment. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
‘Busiest Christmas I have seen’: families turn to food banks in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis (www.theguardian.com)
The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a New Jersey prison (www.theguardian.com)
[Kory] McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. From a cell directly below the man’s cell, McClary overheard his decline over several weeks and described it in a harrowing article that was shared with MindSite News, a...
Poland’s new government sacks state TV, radio and news bosses (www.theguardian.com)
The new Polish government has gutted the top management of public television, making good on a campaign promise to reform a broadcaster that functioned as a mouthpiece of its rightwing populist predecessor, but also prompting criticism of their methods from some quarters....